3 The Boy and the Girl Meet 2 (2/2)

Now Rose closes her eyes with her head on the floor as she curses at herself: (What a good time to lose your caution, Rose! It's a gorilla type monster! That race of monsters are usually in the Fifth Level Advanced Awaken! If it kills me, I'll kill you, Rose!)

In the next moment the gorilla type monster reaches Rose but, without its red gleaming eyes showing any surprise, it keeps walking calmly and relaxed.

Meanwhile, Rose does not dare to move a single muscle and had already finished with her curses, so she started with her prayers: (Please cute little gorilla, don't kill me. I'm still young, there are a lot of things I want to see and do. I swear that if you don't kill me, I will not treat the gorillas badly for the rest of my life... No! If you don't kill me, I'll build to you a sanctuary for gorillas: With bananas and hot springs, so please don't kill me, cute gorilla!)

After being in the blind alley for a few minutes surrounding a rock, the gorilla type monster, for some strange reasons, feels that it should go so it follows its instincts and leaves.

Actually that 'rock' is Rose covered by her Earth Cloak that she got on the first day she arrived at Lurep Village. Since she can nullify the sounds, her body heat and her smell, she thought she could disguise herself as a rock! So she bought an earth color cloak.

When Rose realized that she would not be able to leave the blind alley in time, she threw herself on the floor in a fetal position, and then she plucked the Earth Cloak from her backpack and covered herself with it. After that, it was a matter of luck if the gorilla type monster would notice her presence or not.

After it had been some time since the gorilla type monster left, Rose manages to calm down and begins to feel the shame of herself for the absurdities in which she began to think when she was on the border of life and death. But then she forgives herself for that behavior, after all, it was the first time she had been so close to death.

The moment Rose regains her tranquility, while her ear is still stuck to the ground, she perceives a slight sound coming from the ground, in truth an almost undetectable sound. Upon hearing this, Rose's eyes open so much that they take the shape of a pair of lemons.

(There is something underground!) Rose exclaims.

Being overcome by emotion, she begins to track down the sound like a sniffer dog but instead of using her nose, she uses her ear. Then there she is on all fours trying to find out the place where the sound is louder.

A while later, after crashing her head against the walls a couple of times, Rose manages to find the place where the sound is clearer, and she could even understand some words: ”... Alone... wounded...”

Rose, having her breathing accelerated and her hands slightly trembling with excitement, finally separates her head from the floor. She really has found something! Without further delay, she begins to dig with her fingers and fingernails.

As Rose goes deeper, the mysterious voice becomes clearer and louder.

Soon, the depth of the hole that she is digging is already about three meters… four meters… five meters.

When it reaches six meters, the ground ends and Rose falls into a room.

And as if that fall were a signal, the mysterious voice stops ringing.

Rose gets up while looking with extreme curiosity at her surroundings, and of course, she notices in an instant the mysterious young naked man whose body is pierced by swords that emit a mysterious white light.

The first thing that catches Rose's gaze is neither the mystical swords nor his ghastly wounds but his awfully deep violet eyes.

And then time stops, the world disappears, and all that is left is his eyes.

Both, Rose and the mysterious young man, looking into each other's eyes, remain silent for a long, long time...

And then there is a second thing that catches Rose's gaze, it is something that couldn't be overlooked, not this mysterious young man's and that is…

”… So… big…” Rose can't help saying it.